Careful when using the combined attack as it ignores special damages. Say you had a fire sword that gives piercing damage like a sword but fire damage as well. The CombindedAttack will take the values of both the physical and fire and by the code above make all the damage physical. Hence, any creature immune to physical damage would not get damaged. Problem arises when using special abilities with spears and such against banshees.

I had a fix for the impale, crush, and cleave last April,

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75549875/Fallen%20Enchantress/Abilities/impalecrushingcleavefix.zip

Your application above needs only remove the

<AttackStat>UnitStat_Attack_Pierce</AttackStat>

and it should create the appropriate damage types correctly. I've not noticed anything different from my fix, but it's hard to say given the random nature of things.

The work around could be to set up an ability called "Can Crit" or something... 

The ability would need this game modifier

<GameModifier>
    <ModType>Unit</ModType>
    </Attribute>MeleeAppliesSpell</Attribute>
    <StrVal>CRITSPELL</StrVal>
    <Provides>A 10% chance to have a critical attack</Provides>
</GameModifier>

 The spell would then utilize

<AppliesRandomModifier>1</AppliesRandomModifier>

Set up 9 different different random modifiers of normal damage. (you can even set it to severely critical something)

Apply the game modifier suggested by Primal (but recall this would be only physical damage, and you would lose the weapons fire, lightning, cold damage, etc.)

**This would be a set-up very close to the gamblers strike.**

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Making my own mod. Making great progress, but I do have a question:

Is there a limited number of build slots in a town? Can I add a new unique building that doesn't replace anything? Or must it replace something?

Second question:

I made several new weapons for my faction. to be used by troops. Greatswords. Problem is, I fear they will frak up the regular upgrade if they are classified as blades.

Can I make a new weapon category to make swords and two-handed swords destinct?

EDIt:

Forgot to ask - can a building be a prequisite for training units? Like for example, I add a new building "Proving Grounds" (1 per empire) and you can only build Royal Knights IF you have it built

It's not directly supported but you can use resources as a workaround, or other things depending on exactly what you're after.

Do you want it to be a local or global thing... i.e. does building the Proving Grounds let you build Royal Knights in any city or only the city where the Proving Grounds was built?

One more - how/where do you set up a faction color?

And I mean the interface color - the one where the city name is dispalyed and the town borders.

I can't find where it is defined. My old custom faction was blue.

Now that I modded a new faction (Kingdom) in, it's red.

No, I'm not talking about a custom faction made in the game menu - I'm taking about a kingdom made as a mod. With custom abilities and stuff. You know, in the MOD folder.

So far, no luck with the color.

So, to make a special unit via resource would be to add a new resource (let's call it Faith), have a building that produces it (Cathedral) exclusive to my kingdom, and have the unit cost that resource?

Hm...might work.

More questions:

- Is it possible to make certain champions more likely to spawn for a specific sovereign/kingdom? Or make them exclusive so they want spawn for another?

- can one make a unit upgradeable, but still give it special abilities that aren't standard for designed units (like maul)? Can one give a unit more than 4 (3, given that blood is fixed) abilitites?

- any way to remove custom factions? (made in the Editor) I removed the early sovereigns I made, but the old faction is still popping up in the list

To the best of my knowledge, the "simple" answer to this is no.  

There are some similar things that are possible though, it just depends on the sort of thing you're trying to do.